CVE-2021-39946: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Improper neutralization of user input in GitLab CE/EE versions 14.3 to 14.3.6, 14.4 to 14.4.4, and 14.5 to 14.5.2 allowed an attacker to exploit XSS by abusing the generation of the HTML code related to emojis

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 14.3, before 14.3.6 (fixed in 14.3.6); from 14.4, before 14.4.4 (fixed in 14.4.4); from 14.5, before 14.5.2 (fixed in 14.5.2)

Published 2022-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.